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Rod Dreher

Stranger in a strange land — her own

She’s leaving too. Can’t stand being a stranger in her own country, living in a community that’s hostile to her and ruled not by neighborliness, but by religious and cultural thuggishness. Read the whole thing.

The problem is not necessarily immigration, per se. It’s who is allowed to immigrate, and in what numbers. Are they willing to live peaceably with their neighbors? Are they assimilating, by which I mean, do they maintain their own traditions, but adjust them to the general prevailing norms of the liberal democratic society into which they have chosen to move? If they’re not doing this, what kind of crackpot liberal democratic society accepts large numbers of immigrants from cultures radically opposed to the ideals it cherishes?

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Of the 8.17 million people in London, one million are Muslim, with the majority of them young families. That is not, in reality, a great number. But because so many Muslims increasingly insist on emphasising their separateness, it feels as if they have taken over; my female neighbours flap past in full niqab, some so heavily veiled that I can’t see their eyes. I’ve made an effort to communicate by smiling deliberately at the ones I thought I was seeing out and about regularly, but this didn’t lead to conversation because they never look me in the face.

A study in the U.S. concluded Muslims are the most insulated/isolated group in U.S. society. I was invited to a mosque once, by a woman who sat upstairs; downstairs we were all men. No one greeted me, or even looked me in the eye. In fact, they acted like they were on drugs. Didn’t give me a warm fuzzy about Islam or Islamic culture.

muslims discriminating against non-muslims… it’s so funny how liberals constantly talk about the other way around, and ignore stories like this.

Sachiko on January 31, 2013 at 7:53 PM

Liberals have their narratives, which not only must be respected and validated — they blindly believe in them. Like, minorities are oppressed (except for the 51% majority of women, they’re oppressed because they’re women). Today, the normal order is turned on its head — minorities are at the front of the line, public employees make much more money than private employees … and there’s no value or goodness seen in the dominant culture. White men have become a worthless, penny stock. Christianity is seen as intolerant and old-fashioned. Someone who’s industrious and becomes rich is selfish. Wealth is seen as a pie belonging to everyone, not to the person who created the wealth.

Liberals have their narratives, which not only must be respected and validated — they blindly believe in them. Like, minorities are oppressed (except for the 51% majority of women, they’re oppressed because they’re women). Today, the normal order is turned on its head — minorities are at the front of the line, public employees make much more money than private employees … and there’s no value or goodness seen in the dominant culture. White men have become a worthless, penny stock. Christianity is seen as intolerant and old-fashioned. Someone who’s industrious and becomes rich is selfish. Wealth is seen as a pie belonging to everyone, not to the person who created the wealth.

Paul-Cincy on January 31, 2013 at 8:03 PM

yeah, it’s so annoying how to them, NOTHING goes against their narrative. nothing exists outside their narrative. no one is allowed to question the narrative. (not even liberals themselves. i saw a liberal blog where a couple of liberals in the comments section got a ton of harsh comments from other liberals just because they politely questioned the others…)

The muzzies never assimilate. Thats rule no.1. And over a span of time, their nos. will grow so rapidly that you will have to assimilate into their culture, or leave. Happens all over the world. And with western culture self-imploding with abortion, divorce, single parenthood, gay rights and Fluke-like sex, you can bet that the muzzies will occupy that cultural space.